By The Numbers

[jolinar of malkshor]

I read TIME magazine (subscribe for a couple of years but have been to busy lately to read all of them). One of my favorite parts was the section "By The Numbers" here are some:

20 lbs. Average amount of weight gained during internment by Guantánamo Bay detainees, who receive a daily diet of 4,200 calories--1,200 more than the U.S. government recommends for a man to maintain his weight

410 lbs. Current weight of the heaviest prisoner--195 lbs. more than when he arrived in 2002

52% Proportion of Americans polled who admitted regifting presents or would do so in the future

4% Regifters who did so because they disliked the recipient

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...543921,00.html

2 million Number of tires Florida officials dumped into the Atlantic in 1972 to seed an artificial reef, which never formed. The loose tires are now damaging real coral reefs

$5 million Estimated cost of removing the tires, which is expected to begin in 2008

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...538660,00.html

[Displaced Flames fan]

Is it just me or does $5 million for the removal of 2 million tires, part of the ocean for 36 years, seen like a hell of a bargain?

[jolinar of malkshor]

Between July 1, 2005 and July 1, 2006, Canada's population increased by 324,000 to an estimated 32,623,500.

During this period, Alberta posted a record high net interprovincial migration of 57,100 persons, which is 22,700 more than in the previous year. This migration accounted for 58.2% of Alberta's population growth.
http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/060927/d060927a.htm

[jolinar of malkshor]

1,770 Number of people known to have been executed in China last year--81% of the world's total. The true number is a state secret but is thought to be much higher because executions are not always disclosed.

68 Crimes that carry the death penalty in China, including tax evasion and drug smuggling

167 billion Amount that migrant workers worldwide sent to their home countries in 2005, up from about $85 billion in 2000

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...555138,00.html

[jolinar of malkshor]

17,000 Number of injuries requiring hospital treatment that are suffered by children on school buses each year, according to a report that recommended that districts consider mandating seat belts on buses

I always wondered why they never had seatbelts on buses. If you are in the back of one of those things and you hit a big bump....You almost hit the roof.

53% Estimated increase in global demand for energy--mostly fossil fuels--by 2030. Developing nations, primarily China and India, are responsible for 70% of that growth

2010 Year China is projected to overtake the U.S. as the world's largest emitter of carbon dioxide

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...558312,00.html

[fredr123]

3 - Number of times this thread was bumped by the author.

[jolinar of malkshor]

Originally Posted by fredr123

3 - Number of times this thread was bumped by the author.

Every week new numbers come out. I am simply adding them to the thread. Smart ass.

[jolinar of malkshor]

4 Number of males who must witness a rape in order to prosecute the criminal in Pakistan. Otherwise, the accuser may be charged with adultery. Under a bill passed by the National Assembly, DNA testing and circumstantial evidence could replace witness testimony in court

12 Women raped in Pakistan every day, as estimated by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan

80 million Number of homes worldwide that can tune in to Al-Jazeera's English-news network on TV, which launched last week

0 Number of major American cable operators that have agreed to carry the network

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...561150,00.html

[jolinar of malkshor]

72.6% Percentage of U.S. eighth-graders who had basic reading skills or better in 2005, down 1.2% from 2003

$85 Initial per-share public offering price of Google in 2004

$509.65 Closing price for a share of Google last Tuesday, when the stock broke $500 for the first time. Analysts predict a rise to $600 within a year

3.3 tons Amount of cocaine Costa Rican authorities seized last week from smugglers in a 49-ft. low-riding speedboat--originally reported to be a submarine--covered in lead laminate to avoid radar detection and camouflaged in ocean-colored fiber glass

3 Number of pipes--sticking up from the boat to release exhaust--that were spotted by authorities

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...562934,00.html

[jolinar of malkshor]

$7.044 trillion Total income reported by Americans in 2004, down 1.4% from 2000, according to new IRS data

$53,974 Average income reported by U.S. taxpayers in 2004, down 3% from 2000

244 Bowling score--including eight strikes--earned last week by legally blind Esther Medley of Centralia, Wash., the second highest score this year in her league

94 Medley's age

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...565562,00.html

[jolinar of malkshor]

$1 billion Amount Israeli businessman Avi Shaked has offered to pay Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya if he reaches a peace accord with Israel

$100 million Amount Shaked says he would give if the Palestinian and Israeli Premiers simply sit down to talk

$138,000 Top estimate for Audrey Hepburn's little black Givenchy dress from the 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany's--which was auctioned in London last week

$807,000 Price an anonymous buyer paid for the dress

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...568481,00.html

[jolinar of malkshor]

2040 Year the effects of global warming could cause the Arctic Ocean to be mostly water--instead of icebergs--in the summer

300 million Estimated U.S. population as of October

2043 Year the 400 millionth American is expected to be born or naturalized

3,278 U.S. military deaths in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001, as of Dec. 15

$502 billion Amount the U.S. has spent in the war on terrorism

7.5 million Number of Ford Tauruses made in the sedan's 21-year life span, which ended Oct. 27

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...570803,00.html

Instead of the US spending that much on terrorism...they should have just paid off our debt.

[jolinar of malkshor]

379 Number of homicides committed in Houston in 2006, a 12-year high and a 13.5% increase over 2005

148,000 Jump in Houston's 2006 population, due largely to Hurricane Katrina evacuees. Houston's mayor cited the influx as a major reason for the crime surge

47 Number of coal-miner deaths in 2006, a 10-year high, reversing an 80-year trend of steady decreases

2,295 Average number of coal miners who were killed each year before the 1930s

502 Marijuana bales Texas police seized from a truck driver, Louis Mendez, 29, last month. He was arrested and held on a $1 million bond

20,000 tons Estimated weight of the seized narcotics, worth roughly $25 million

20 months Prison term a woman in Japan recently received for blasting music at her neighbor 24 hours a day

20 ft. Distance between the two houses

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...574154,00.html

[jolinar of malkshor]

85% Percentage of U.S. Roman Catholic dioceses that in a recent survey said they had learned church money had been embezzled in the past five years

11% Percentage of those reporting embezzlements that said more than $500,000 had been stolen

12,000 Estimated number of illegal immigrants apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border in November

10 Number of illegals apprehended in November thanks to a $200,000 experimental website allowing anyone to monitor the border and alert authorities. Viewers sent 14,800 e-mails through the site

5,100 Number of recruitment letters the U.S. Army sent out between Christmas Day and New Year's Day intended for veteran officers who had recently left the service

275 Number of letters that were sent to the families of service members who had either been killed or injured in Iraq

47 Number of years Robert Nuranen kept a copy of the book Prince of Egypt borrowed from the public library in Hancock, Mich., before finally returning it last week

$171.32 Amount he paid in late fees for the book

[jolinar of malkshor]

$8.9 million Maximum pay that Home Depot CEO Frank Blake will receive this year

$24 million Average annual pay, excluding stock options, earned by his predecessor, Robert Nardelli, who stepped down Jan. 2, partly over the size of his compensation

50,508 Number of wounded American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs website in November

21,649 Number of wounded troops listed on the website as of Jan. 10, after it corrected an error that included noncombat injuries

$500 billion Annual cost to the U.S. economy of children growing up poor, a result of eventual lower productivity and earnings and higher crime rates and health costs

17% Portion of children in the U.S. living in or near poverty

114 Age of the world's oldest living person, Yone Minagawa, below, a Japanese woman who gained the honor when the previous record holder died Jan. 28

28,000 Approximate number of Japanese who are 100 or older--up from 1,000 in the early 1980s

[jolinar of malkshor]

345,000 Number of people worldwide who died of measles in 2005, down 60% from 1999, beating a goal set by the United Nations

16¢ Cost of a measles vaccine, which is often unaffordable in the Third World without underwriting from charities and foreign governments

$2.14 Price of a bottle of Kwispelbier, a beef-flavored beer created for dogs by a Dutch pet-shop owner who wanted to have drinks with her Weimaraners after a hunt

4 Number of Heinekens she could buy for the same price

[jolinar of malkshor]

45 million Number of people who have voted so far in a Swiss company's Internet campaign to choose the seven "new" wonders of the world from among 21 historical buildings and monuments

2,200 Approximate number of years since intellectuals in the Mediterranean and the Middle East selected the ancient seven wonders. Today, only one, Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza, survives

19 trillion Frequent-flyer miles awarded by U.S. airlines in the past 25 years, enough to circle the globe 760 million times

14 trillion Miles that passengers have yet to redeem

64% Percentage of the Brazilian population that is Catholic; it was 74% a decade ago

17% Percentage of Evangelicals in the population; that's up from 11% a decade ago

8.8% Percentage of Saudi Arabia's GDP devoted to military expenditure in 2005. Saudi Arabia has expensive taste in military hardware, such as Patriot missiles, from the U.S.

4% Percentage of America's GDP devoted to military expenditure in 2005, a lower proportion but higher dollar amount: the U.S. spent $495.3 billion, compared with Saudi Arabia's $25.4 billion

$24 million Value of military materials China sold to Sudan in 2005, according to a recent Amnesty International report claiming that the weapons ended up in the hands of the government-backed Janjaweed militia

$8.1 billion Value of weapons the U.S. supplied to developing countries, such as Pakistan and Kuwait, in 2005, which represents 46% of the worldwide weapons total

[jolinar of malkshor]

$51 million Price of a program introduced by Brazil's President, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, to subsidize birth-control pills. Under the plan, a month's supply of pills will cost about 20¢

150,000 Estimated number of people who attended Pope Benedict XVI's May 13 Mass in Aparecida, north of São Paulo, during which he condemned abortion and contraception. Brazil, the world's largest Catholic country, recorded some 125 million followers in 2000

20% Estimated percentage of Chinese-made toys and baby clothes that are below standards, as reported by China's consumer watchdog. Example: industrial waste was found stuffed inside some toys

$5.79 billion Value of Chinese toys sold to the U.S. in 2005. China exports more toys than any other country

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...627021,00.html

[NSFL]

I can't believe I've never noticed this thread...

[Azure]

Yeah, it is interesting.